A Day Of Sunshine

It was such a lovely sunshine-day, The house and the yard couldn't hold me;I roved to the woods, on my back I lay, In cradle of fancy rolled me;But there were ants, and gnats that bite,The horse-fly was keen, the wasp showed fight.

"Dear me, don't you want to be out in this fineweather?" --said mother, who sat on the steps and sang.

It was such a lovely sunshine-day, The house and the yard couldn't hold me;A meadow I found, on my back I lay, And sang what my spirit told me;Then snakes came crawling, a fathom long,To bask in the sun,--I...